Old trains on Google Maps (50s or earlier)

[Schuylkill and Susquehanna]

I posted this forum as a place for people to post the locations of old locmotives and cars that can be found on Google Maps and Street View.  Please post the locations of old locomotives and cars that are not located in a museum.  The idea is to create a thread where the locations of pieces of RR history that aren't in large museums can be found.  Please supply either the nearest address or the exact co-ordinates of the equipment and the type of equipment.

 

Here are a pair of locations that I know of:

42.492453 N, 74.962964 W.  6460 Main Street, Maryland, NY, 12116.  There are a pair of ex-PRR GG1 locmotives, a diner with an old streamlined passenger car, and what appears to be an old railroad owned truck-mounted crane.  Further to the west are a pair of F-units painted white, blue, and red with an "M" on the front.  Several freight cars are coupled behind the locomotives.

40.690378N, 76.256230 W.  Aproximately 128-184 East Sunbery Street, Minersville, PA, 17954.  Cental New Jersey 0-6-0 No. 113.  Street View shows a photo from a few years ago when 113 was still under restoration, and the satalite photo shows 113 nearly finished.  There are plans for 113 to haul excursions over NS trackage.

[gregc]

Schuylkill and Susquehanna

40.690378N, 76.256230 W.  Aproximately 128-184 East Sunbery Street, Minersville, PA, 17954.  Cental New Jersey 0-6-0 No. 113.  Street View shows a photo from a few years ago when 113 was still under restoration, and the satalite photo shows 113 nearly finished.  There are plans for 113 to haul excursions over NS trackage.

this is hopefully an accompanying photo i found on google image

[wjstix]

You can put in "Jackson Street Roundhouse St. Paul MN" and it comes up with the MN Transportation Museum located in the old GN roundhouse just north of downtown St.Paul. You can see a number of old freight and passenger cars, and GN SD-45 "Hustle Muscle".

[gmpullman]

One of my most memorable visits to the East Broad Top Railroad was during one of their winter rambles in Feb, 1976. A friend I was with told me about the hopper cars stuck on a siding "up Mount Union way." So I headed up the Groghan Pike to Mt. Union, PA and sure enough, there they were... and still are today! The EBT interchanged with the PRR here and occasionally swapped narrow gauge trucks to put under standard gauge cars to continue on the EBT. THAT would make for an interesting modeling project... Pan around the Mt. Union area and you'll find the old Pennsy main, the EBT right-of-way and the engine house from the Mt. Union Connecting Railroad.

+40° 22' 41.96", -77° 52' 21.82"

 

I'll never know why Google uses mid-summer satelite views but you can see a few of the cars under the tree canopy. Pan south on the Croghan Pike to the intersection of Route 2025 and you will see a dual gauge crossing still there.

 

Here's a link to a great photo of these hoppers that have been on this siding since 1956 or so... check out the US Army cars posted by the same photographer, too.

 

http://www.railpictures.net/photo/255582/

 

Take care, Ed

 

[steemtrayn]

Sometimes, you can find the Google car pacing a train.

https://maps.google.com/maps?ll=40.220969,-74.012951&spn=0.000008,0.004324&t=h&z=18&layer=c&cbll=40.221065,-74.012918&panoid=qCvLm4QI8ndaoMHW116lcg&cbp=12,74.8,,0,-5.95

 

https://maps.google.com/maps?q=Montcoal,+WV&hl=en&ll=37.949096,-81.54366&spn=0.003579,0.008647&sll=40.22108,-74.012918&sspn=0.000429,0.001081&oq=montcoal&t=h&hnear=Montcoal,+2,+Raleigh,+West+Virginia&z=17&layer=c&cbll=37.948906,-81.543725&panoid=RqFrdB_Z87gy70wpJ_g7xw&cbp=12,49.52,,0,-8.87